Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band

Hello. The Rambling String Band recently returned from a wonderful weekend camping and performing at the Florida Folk Festival in White Springs. We're very excited about what we have lined up for the summer, including new recordings (more on that in a future newsletter), our return to a favorite South Florida music room (Luna Star Cafe), a brand new special program that highlights America's experience… (read more)

For a limited time, you can download The Vacant Chair free-of-charge, in remembrance of the 1.2 million men and women who have died in the U.S. military since the Revolutionary War. The song was written during the American Civil War at Thanksgiving time in 1861, as families in the North and South gathered for holiday celebrations and found themselves staring at "the vacant chair." It was one of the… (read more)

On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.(President Dwight D. Eisenhower, from the first Veterans Day Proclamation, October 8, 1954) *    … (read more)

Pictures from my "Music in the Life of Abraham Lincoln" show on 10/18/2009 at Nova Southeastern University's Alvin Sherman Library. (read more)